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Piet Meerburg

Piet Meerbug was a member of the resistance in Amsterdam. He was the leader of a resistance group that helped to save hu...

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Kurt Huber

Kurt Huber was one of the few German professors who opposed the Nazi Regime. In December 1942, Huber joined the White Ro...

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Johan Snoek

Johan Snoek helped people in hiding. When he and his family were driven from their home by the Battle of Arnhem in Septe...

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Henryk Kosior

Henryk Kosior fought in Polish Army in September 1939. During the Soviet occupation, he joined the resistance. He was ...

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Hans Scholl

Hans Scholl was the central figure of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group in Munich. Scholl, together with f...

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Hans Leipelt

Hans Leipelt was a student at Munich University. He received a copy of the sixth leaflet of the White Rose on the day th...

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Ferruccio Parri

Ferruccio Parri was a key figure of the Italian resistance movement. As the Deputy commander of the Volunteers of Freedo...

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Le Blitz de Portsmouth

Le Blitz de Portsmouth a tué ou blessé plus de 3 000 personnes et a comporté 67 grands raids de bombardement. On estime ...

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Portsmouth pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Portsmouth, petite ville de la côte sud de l'Angleterre, a joué un rôle crucial dans...

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Ernst Sillem

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940, Ernst Sillem was 16 years old. From the start, he tried to thw...

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Danuta Siedzikówna

Danuta Siedzikówna joined the Home Army when she was 15 years old and served as nurse. After the war, when the communist...

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Christoph Probst

Christoph Probst came from an unconventional family and was the only one of the White Rose students who had children. He...

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Carlo Travaglini

Carlo Travaglini was German on his mother’s side, and was an independent partisan who managed to save numerous Italian s...

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Boy Ecury

Boy Ecury from Aruba – a Caribbean island colonized by the Dutch – was studying in the Netherlands when the country was ...

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Alfredo Malgeri

Alfredo Malgeri was the commander of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Guard) in Milan. He played an important role in t...

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Alexander Schmorell

Alexander Schmorell was born in Russia but grew up in Germany. In the summer of 1942, he and Hans Scholl produced and ...

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Le pacte germano-soviétique

Le pacte germano-soviétique, également connu sous le nom de pacte Molotov-Ribbentrop, est un traité de non-agression sig...

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Missak Manouchian

Missak Manouchian a été l'un des principaux dirigeants de la Résistance française pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, no...

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Albert André

A 22 ans, Albert André (nom de guerre Jacque Paris (1919-03-01)) et sa famille résidaient dans la ville balnéaire d'Arro...

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Le débarquement en Sicile

Le débarquement en Sicile, le 10 juillet 1943, fut la première grande opération de débarquement alliée sur le sol europé...

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The liberation of the Nazi Camps

Towards the end of the Second World War, Allied troops uncovered camps in Nazi Germany and the areas it had occupied. Th...

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Georges S. Patton en Sicile

George Patton (1885-1945) fut l'un des protagonistes de la campagne de Sicile en 1943. L'avancée rapide de ses troupes j...

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Bernard Montgomery en Sicile

Lors de l'invasion de la Sicile en 1943, Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) était le général commandant la 8e armée britanni...

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Les Partisans en Sicile

La Sicile n'a pas pris part au moment opportun au mouvement de résistance, mais elle y a néanmoins contribué grâce aux n...

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